Maine just became the 5th current state to allow same sex marriages in the U.S. and the second state after Vermont to do so through the legislature rather than through the courts. That's a full 10% of all states in this country, which is amazing!
They might not be the newest state for long, either, because the New Hampshire state legislature is poised to send their Governor a similar bill.
These are truly exciting times to be living in, especially when you consider that the Stonewall riots were a mere 40 years ago and it has been even less time than that since being LGBT was considered to be a mental illness and an actual crime!
We've still got a long way to go, of course, but this is news that is very much worth celebrating.
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